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February 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: The human communication aspect

February 5, 2021

We spend a lot of time each month discussing the technical details surrounding vulnerabilities, software updates, and the tools we use for patch management in our …

Security researchers targeted by North Korean hackers

January 26, 2021

Over the past few months, hackers have been trying to surreptitiously backdoor the computer systems of a number of security researchers working on vulnerability research and …

Bugs in Signal, other video chat apps allowed attackers to listen in on users

January 21, 2021

Bugs in several messaging/video chat mobile apps allowed attackers to spy on targeted users’s surroundings. The vulnerabilities – in Signal, Google Duo, Facebook …

Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning

January 19, 2021

Seven vulnerabilities affecting Dnsmasq, a caching DNS and DHCP server used in a variety of networking devices and Linux distributions, could be leveraged to mount DNS cache …

January 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: New focus on security and software development

January 8, 2021

2020 is in the rearview mirror and most of us can’t get away fast enough. It was a year unlike any other, but 2021 looks to be unique as well. The year started out with …

How to reduce the risk of third-party SaaS apps

December 3, 2020

Third-party SaaS apps (and extensions) can significantly extend the functionality and capabilities of an organization’s public cloud environment, but they can also …

Spin Technology adds new security features to its SpinOne for Google Workspace and Office 365

November 19, 2020

Spin Technology announced the next generation of SpinOne, an AI-powered ransomware and backup solution for Google Workspace and Office 365. In the last year alone, 51 percent …

Holiday gifts getting smarter, but creepier when it comes to privacy and security

November 12, 2020

A Hamilton Beach Smart Coffee Maker that could eavesdrop, an Amazon Halo fitness tracker that measures the tone of your voice, and a robot-building kit that puts your kid’s …

Encryption-based threats grow by 260% in 2020

November 11, 2020

New Zscaler threat research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260-percent spike in attacks using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security …

Google fixes two actively exploited Chrome zero-days (CVE-2020-16009, CVE-2020-16010)

November 4, 2020

For the third time in two weeks, Google has patched Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild: CVE-2020-16009 is present in the desktop …

Google discloses actively exploited Windows zero-day (CVE-2020-17087)

November 2, 2020

Google researchers have made public a Windows kernel zero day vulnerability (CVE-2020-17087) that is being exploited in the wild in tandem with a Google Chrome flaw …

What is confidential computing? How can you use it?

October 20, 2020

What is confidential computing? Can it strengthen enterprise security? Nelly Porter, Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud and Sam Lugani, Lead Security PMM, Google Workspace …